The Pistons vs. The Trail Blazers

The 20-33 Pistons will host the 29-24 Trail Blazers Sunday evening at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

Detroit would love to get a win after the demoralizing loss to the Heat Friday night at home. This game could give Detroit the momentum push they need to start gathering up wins before the All-Star break, especially with Brandon Roy and Marcus Camby on the sidelines for Portland..

Besides the fact that this is game is a sellout, most of the attention is based off court with the impending sale of the Pistons to billionaire and Michigan native Tom Gores.

The good: Not much, especially since the NBA’s trade deadline is creeping up on us.

The bad: Watch out for LeMarcus Aldridge, who’s having a great year and thrives against Detroit. Aldridge, who was passed over for next week’s All-Star game, Aldridge has scored at least 37 points in three of his last six games. After totaling a career-high 42 in Monday’s 109-103 victory over Chicago, the fifth-year forward-center had 14 of his 37 in the final 12 minutes of Friday’s 102-96 win over Toronto. He also grabbed 10 rebounds for his 26th double-double this season.

Monroe plays better when Ben Wallace is not in the starting line up. He slows the pace down for our team too much. He should come off the bench, because he already has limited minutes so we should put guys like Wilcox in his place.

What the Line up should be:
PG; T-Mac
SG: Stuckey
SF: Prince
PF: Wilcox
C: Monroe

Anyone who needs proof that Q is a moron just needs to look at that inane and insane substitution of Stuckey for Bynum at the end of the game. Even Blaha and Kelser sounded shocked and they’re pretty good at toeing the party line!
Waah! I want Jerry Sloan!!!! Doesn’t mean we’d win, but at least that part of the puzzle would be fixed.

that was a standard defense for offense sub, that happens a lot in the last seconds of a game, you are behind and need to foul, so you sub your better offense guy, and then on the next possession you go back with offense (bynum). Bynum was having a lot of difficulties defending during this game, while stuckey had problems with offense.

you’ve seen this before with ben wallace, we would have him in on defense, and then immediately out on offense and then back in again on defense in the last few seconds of a close game when you are behind.